Chapter 1 - 4 Arrival to town in Another world

While watching Hayato fix the street with a shovel, next to me is a girl who was on driving seat and a cat-eared girl was there.

Both of them are silent, but the cat-eared girl seems to be curious about this side and is glancing at me.
This one also glanced at her, and the way she quickly turned her head away when our gazes met was a little cute and funny.

“Hey”

As I was playing with the cat-eared girl's reaction, the girl in carriage spoke to me.

“You're from the same place as Hayato, aren't you?”
“Yeah, maybe, but yes, it is”
“So....... What's that world like, well how is it?”
“What does that mean, hmmm.... peaceful, I guess?”
“I see. That's how it is”

I wonder what this girl wants to hear.

“Hayato, you know. He says he'd like to go home if he could once, he's accomplished his goal”

The girl looks at Hayato with distant eyes and said.

“I see....”
“It is peaceful.... Then maybe it's better that way”

The girl murmured as she continued, "Hayato, he always pushes himself too hard."

“But according to Hayato, he said he was in an accident. Maybe he couldn't go back”
“I suppose... yeah”

The girl laughed sadly, but not happily, and smiled to herself, a little happy while pushing back her emotions.

“Well, I guess it's far from over. Until then, you can be spoiled to your heart's content”
“Nah!　I'm not going to spoil him!　He's no good without me!”

Thank you for Tsun (Tsundere).
Yes, yes, you're a tsundere girl!　I feel like a character who is aristocratic and has a fancy hair style is a bit of a temptress and a tsundere.
Oh, I'm excluding pink because it look like a lewd person.


“Hey, young lady. A word of advice from an experienced brother. If you're going to continue your adventures, you might as well take the opportunity to be pampered. Especially since you're not very good at that sort of thing”
“It's not like that!　He's like a brother with a handful of problems...... But yeah. We're in a lot of danger. If he wants to be pampered, I mean... maybe it wouldn't hurt to spoil him”

Yeah, she is temptress.
But no matter how I look at it, this young lady is probably younger than him.
I feel like Hayato is somehow a useless protagonist.

“Hey, hey, Emily?　If you're watching, could you help me?　Or maybe you could ask the earth spirit to help me out”
“No! Hayato did this, so Hayato has to fix it”
“Yes, but it's hard to equalize the soil while wearing armor...”
“It's Hayato's fault”

Yup. After all, I think this guy is a useless protagonist.

“Hey, Young Lady”
“...it's Letty. Letty Flamehart. I'm an aristocrat, but if you know Hayato, just call me Letty. So don't call me young lady”
“Really. Then I'm okay with being call Itsuki, Miss Letty-Jou Chan”
“... Ha. I'm fine with that”

Letty sighs as if giving up.
Apparently, she's at an age where she think diffcult things.

“Yes!”

Then, a cat-eared girl poked me on the hip from the opposite side, and when I turned around, she responded by raising her hand vigorously.

“My is Mii nano desu! I'm the daughter of the cat-human chief race!”

The twitching cat ears and the tail that hangs down from the tailbone give me an idea of what the cat people are like.
There are Cat Mofumofu people! Real cat ear and tail? Oh!

“Oh, yeah. You are Mii. You're Mii-jouchan then. Okay, I remember now”
“Yes!　Nano desu!”

An energetic girl, Mii. Apparently, she relieved to see me talking to Letty and was wondering when to talk to her.

“Seen like Onii-san was not bad person- nano desu”

Onii-san.........
I can't help being called an onii-san when age exceeds 25!
This girl is a good!

“Oh!　Oni-san, you know, I'm not a bad person!”
“That's right-nano desu!　There's not a bad person among Hayato-sama's acquaintances-no desu!”
“That's right.　Because Hayato is a good guy”
“That's right-nano desu!”

With a smile on face and twitching ears.
After saying that much, Mi moved closer to Hayato.

“Oh...... cat ears are nice”
“……Hey”
“You don't have to tell me...”
“So..... Don't get weirded out. I don't want to burn someone I know”
“Don't worry. I'm not a lolicon. I just purely want to enjoy that ears and tail”

And there's no way to argue with a kid who seems to be more than 10 years away.

“Ahhhhh....I wonder if I could hire a cat-eared girl for my employees”
“...... if you bother her too much, she won't like you so becareful”
“Oh, yeah, right. It's a cat, right? Oh, I wonder if there's a cat cafe?”

It didn't seem to take long for Mii to help Hayato's work.
The elf girl called Emily helped a little, too, and an earthy light hovered around her, wobbling and disappearing.

“Sorry for the wait, Itsuki-san”
“Oh, no. I'm sorry I didn't help you”
“No, no. I'd like for you to get to know these girls as well!”

Hayato smiles when he says that.
He must be a real good guy, around not being sarcastic or anything.

“Let's go then. We're almost to the commercial city, Einzhale”

We all climbed into the carriage, and Letty and Hayato were next to climb up to the driver seat.
That was fine, but for some reason, the elf girl was staring at me.

“......Excuse me, what can I do for you?”
“......It does not matter”

Nevertheless, she staring at me continuously.
Mii is messing with the fluttering butterflies and doesn't pay attention to us.

“Ah ... that’s right. I'm called Itsuki”
“I know. Hayato told me. I'm Emily. An elf race”

When she says that much without hesitation, she doesn't look away without concern about me.
I was about to talk to Hayato to get a change of air because it was somewhat awkward.

“Hey. Did you really come to this world today for the first time?”
“Yeah, I think so”
“is that so.......”

What is it?　I don't know if I've ever met you before.
Do we know where we've met?　I guess that's the usual pick-up line for a pick-up girl like that.
Well, that's impossible. Yeah. Just because it's another world, my imagination is too much intense.

“It's nothing. Don't worry about it”
“Oh, sure”

Yeah. It's really just my imagination.
I'm thrilled to see that elves are so beautiful.

“Itsuki-san. You can see it now!”

With that said, the thing I could see ahead of me pointed to a large wall. It was a castle gate that was commensurate with its size.

“That's the commercial city, Einzhale. If you don't leave the city, I don't think there are many cities with more entertainment and excitement than this one”
“Oh!　That's exactly what I'm looking for in a city that suits me!”
“Fufufu. Yeah, I guess so. We often visit there, and it seems like we have many opportunities to see each other”

Since it is a commercial city, it is likely to attract specialty products from all over the country.
So, there's almost no need to go to other towns without bothering to increase the level of space magic in anticipation of the teleportation skill.
Oh, I didn't know I had such good luck beyond that traumatic level of disaster, I should say.

“Oh, that's very encouraging. I'm so glad I met Hayato when I didn't have anyone I knew”
“No, not so much ...”

Apparently, he seemed shy and he flushed his face a little.
Hey, stop it, good-looking man. This is gonna raise some weird flags.
Letty-jouchan, don't glare at me either. I don't have any intention of doing that!

When we were standing in line for the carriage, it became our turn, and Hayato and everyone else was showing something look-like cards.

“Oh, he's an acquaintance who I know and is a "Drifter". I will issue a card at some guild today”

When Hayato said that, the gatekeeper gave him a glance of approval and was allowed through the castle gate.
Apparently, the card proved one's identity, and "Drifters" were like people come from another world like us.

“Well, we're here. What do we do now?　You need to get a card from a guild somewhere”
“Is guild mean for an adventurer or a mage?”
“Other than that, there are merchants, alchemists, blacksmiths, etc. I think Itsuki-san's skill would be good for an alchemist”
“Then I am fine with that. It seems that Hayato may ask for alchemy, so it is better for me to familiar with it”
“We are saved time through, are you fine with it?”
“No matter where I belong, the things I do will not change”

It can be anywhere except the Adventurer's Guild, where it is regularly told me to defeat monsters.
I'm absolutely sorry and don’t want to work that I need to work due to sudden call of an emergency quest.
Also, about mage guild, space magic seem like rare skills, and it seems a lot of troublesome.

“Then I will head to the Alchemist Guild”
“I’m glad for you helping till the end”
“No. No. If you want to make a card on it, you should already get explanation.”

What is this child.
I wonder if there was such a good young man in Japan, where there is plenty of cheeky and unpleasant people these days.
When a new employee who just entered get invited,

『Do you want to work? There will be surely overtime. Are you okay with it? 』

I can only imagine they will say like that.
I don't want myself to overdo it. I agree with the opinion that application is old.
I just thought I would go drinking, but I didn't think I would get told like this.
Since then, I haven't invited him to drink, but even when I'm driving while I'm at work, he messed up with my cell phone and started calling my friend, I felt like I was about to rampage. I warned him at the time, but he seemed to forget about it. Seriously, personnel incompetence, and let's forget about that unimportant story from the past.

“We have arrived. This is the Einzhale Alchemist Guild”

When the carriage stops, Hayato descends first.
Did he take a consideration on the fact that he didn't have to offer my hand to help him get off the carriage?
There's no doubt that it's not interaction between men.

When I got off, the first thing I noticed was the suspicious signboard with the flask and the test tube.
Hayato opens the door as if nothing going to happen, and then continues.

The inside is surprisingly clean, and it seems that there are many rooms except that there is a counter in front.
There was a woman who seemed to be a receptionist at the counter, and Hayato was talking to her.

“P-Please wait a moment. I'm going to call the Guild Master”

After saying that, the woman bowed to me and Hayato and left.

“I'm sorry. Maybe it's a bit annoying”

Apparently, she was surprised at the adventurer rank and aristocratic status of the card Hayato showed, and for the time being, she seemed to call for the guild master.
After a while, an old woman who bent her waist appeared with a woman.

“Oya. Oya. A chick has become a nobleman”
“Reinrich-san. You're as harsh as ever”

Apparently, they are old acquaintances.

“So, this time it's about applying for a guild card, but which I remember I think you had no talent for alchemy”
“Today I came to ask for him, not me”
“Huh. let's see. Hmm. Still rough but talented. All right. It is desirable that the edge with the chick be shaped. I'll make one right away without any exams. Anyway you are in hurry, right?”
“Well, that's ...”
“That's right. Then I'll do it right away. Guild registration fee is 5000 Nord”

I was told and I handed one silver coin to Reinrich.
Hayato tried to put it out, but it was bad for him to do so.
An old woman named Reinrich handed me the change and immediately sat down at the counter and quietly started making card.

“Sorry. But if you are in a hurry, you didn't have to accompany me this far”
“No, no. It's not that I need to that impatient”

However, it is true that they see to be in a hurry.
I wonder if it is a peculiarly Japanese nature to feel sorry for it.

“Here, it done. Pull your hand, young boy”

I held out my arm as she told me, and she placed a rolled-up piece of paper on the back of my hand.
When the old woman opened her eyes, the paper burned and panicked for a moment, but her gripped arm was so powerful that I couldn't think it was the old woman's.
Then three red lines appeared on the back of my hand.

“Yes, it's done. In your heart, try to say 『Guild Card Open』”

When I try as I was told, a card appeared in front of me.
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Shinomiya Itsuki : Alchemist Lv 1
HP: 15/15 MP: 250/250
STR : G VIT: G
INT: F MDF: G
AGI: G DEX: E

Active skills
Space magic Lv1
Alchemy Lv1
Appraisal Lv1
Passive skills
Agriculture Lv1
Cuisine Lv1
Active Auto skill
Madness Lv1

? ? ? skill
 ??? Lv 1
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It appears like that.
Apparently, the guild card doesn't have a unique skill.

“Hey. What is Active Auto Skill?”

An active skill will be a skill that activates when used.
Passive skills seem to be always active.

“Active Auto Skill is a skill that you can activate once you use it until time passes.”

When an old woman suddenly picks up my guild card, she begins to stare at it.

“As always, I still don't know the bottom. Still, the status is ridiculously low despite being drifters”

With that word, Hayato also looks into the guild card.
Then, he smiled and solidified as if he was a little squeezed.

"This is……"

"For reference, what did Hayato look like at level 1?"
"At least all the status was D or higher ..."

D.......
Hayato, it's amazing ...

“Oh, but MP is high! If you do this, it will be a level that you can afford easily to be a mage!”
“Well, I'm not going to be a mage for real”
“That's right ...”
“Well, it's okay if INT and DEX necessary for alchemy are not G. I want MID to be better, but it going okay I guess”

Reinrich returned the card after she said that.

“By the way, it's safe to drop the card as it disappears 30 seconds after it's taken out”

As she said, the card quickly disappeared.

“Ah, can you put it out again?”

Hayato told me so and thought again to open the guild card.

I handed it to Hayato, who asked me to lend it to him, and he was fiddling with my card for some reason.

“Alright. With this, you can always contact me every time”

There is Hayato name was added to the card he gives back.
Apparently, it seems to have a friend function, and Hayato's letters were shining white.
But suddenly the card vibrated, and when Hayato's letters flashed, I heard a voice coming from there.

『Hello. The friend function of the guild card has the effect that you can talk from a long distance like this』

That being said, I looked at Hayato and he was smiling at me, holding it to his ear like a phone, smiling at me.

『It's like a phone call ... no, it's like a friend chat on the internet』
『That's right. But I can only register up to 5 people』
『Well, is it okay to use on such a precious frame for me?』
『Yes, of course. I look forward to working with you』

I understand that a good-looking man is doing everything from start to till end as perfect.
As expected, protagonist. Perhaps the true protagonist is kind even toward a man.